28 Jan Volkswagen Diesel Scandal – Whatever It Takes | 1
In 2006, Volkswagen executive Martin Winterkorn hatches a plan to boost auto sales in America. The way to do it? Clean diesel cars. But VW’s engineers run into a wall, and so they take a troubling shortcut—one that a group of graduate students will inadvertently expose.
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